Library of Formatting Examples:Footnotes/01A

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to accompany the expedition homeward, and his purpose
thus be frustrated, he kept himself in concealment
until it had sailed. These are, however, mere matters
of rumor and conjecture.[A]
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[Footnote A: Mr. Verhoeff, from all accounts, seemed perfectly content and much interested
in his work as mineralogist and meteorologist, and manifested no anxiety to be one
of the party on the trip across the inland ice.]

Symbols as anchors

If a book uses symbols as footnote anchors, the proofreaders replace them with [*]. Formatters change them to [A], [B], [C], etc.

Formatting the actual footnotes requires several separate steps:

  1. Highlight the entire text of one footnote, then click the [Footnote] button to properly enclose it in a footnote tag.
  2. If the footnote used a symbol and is not a continuation, replace the symbol with A, B, C, etc., so that it matches the letter you used in the corresponding anchor in the text. Make sure there's a blank line above the first line of the footnote.
  3. Format the text within the footnote just as though it was normal text. This includes inline markups, blank lines, block quotes, no-wraps, and indented poetry.
  4. If a footnote appears to continue onto the next page, add a continuation asterisk after the closing bracket. If you're not sure, peek at the next page to find out.
  5. If you're formatting the continuation of a footnote, add a continuation asterisk before the opening bracket. There should be no footnote number or letter in a continuation, so the colon should immediately follow the word "Footnote". The button will do this for you, although you'll still have to add the leading asterisk.

You can do these steps in whatever sequence you prefer ... as long as they all get done. Be sure to use the button: it's too easy to make mistakes when typing all this yourself.

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